{"id":23323,"date":"2013-02-07T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=23323"},"modified":"2013-02-07T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:10:58","slug":"stop-being-good-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/02\/stop-being-good-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop &#8220;Being Good&#8221;.  Be Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Stop being good!\u00a0 Just be.\u00a0 We have this whole mechanism in the world where Morality and Being Good has been given over importance.\u00a0 It is nonsensical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen our humanity overflows, divinity descends,\u201d Sadhguru tells us in this video. Looking at the reason why our humanity can get \u201cconstipated\u201d, he tells us that devotion allows our humanity to find expression, and stresses the importance of devotion as a way of being, rather than as an act.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop being good!\u00a0 Just be.\u00a0 We have this whole mechanism in the world where Morality and Being Good has been given over importance.\u00a0 It is nonsensical. \u201cWhen our humanity overflows, divinity descends,\u201d Sadhguru tells us in this video. 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